Jose Altuve
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This restaurant, was the highlight of our trip to Cappadocia along with the balloon ride. Best restaurant of the region if you are looking for a romantic dinner with your spouse or significant other.
My wife and I love to go out and enjoy a good meal back in the US or when we travel. We enjoy most places but there is always one or two dishes that we don’t like too much. Well, in this case, we LOVED every single dish we had for dinner. I honestly think you will have an extremely difficult time finding something you dont like at this restaurant. We had 4 appetizers and two full main courses, and when I say we LOVED every single one of them, its an understatement.
The sizes are very generous and we were able to somehow eat it all because it was so good (yes we can eat a lot). No room for dessert unfortunately. The Pumkin soup suprised me, because I’m not a soup person. But Yalçin, our server, who is the best server we had in our trip, recommended it. It gets a 10/10. Amazing!! Then he also recommended the Muhammara starter, saying that it was his personal favorite from the whole menu. OMG it did not disappoint!!! WOW.. I can rate it as the BEST rare starter we had in Turkey. We don’t eat this kind of food back home in Miami, so we had no clue what to expect, but it blew our minds away. We also had a free appetizer they brought us which was some kind of local tortilla with local cheese and local butter. LOVED it!! And we also got the Hummus, Spectacular!! For the main courses we ordered a chicken with potatoes and vegetables. A+++ and for me I don’t know what I got since I just asked our server to bring me what he recommended (will leave a picture here) but I think it was some kind of Short Rib or Lamb with a special rice, almost like a rissotto but very unique. Again, a Home Run.
It is a little pricier than your average restaurant in Cappadocia, but please believe me, its worth Every bit of your money!!!
And also something I appreciated, Most places we went and tours that we did in this trip, at the end they ask you if you liked it. Then, if you say yes, then they tell you to please leave a review to keep the star rating high. Well, not here. Nobody asked us to leave a review but it was so good and we felt so great that I decided to take my time to do it because they deserve it.